I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside.

My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about.

I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.